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BILLET D`ETAT FOR 10-01-2007
Date: 10th January, 2007Members of the States:
I have the honour to inform you that the Meeting of the States will be held at 5:30 pm on Wednesday 10th January 2007. This will be preceded by the People"s Meeting, which will be held on Wednesday 3rd January 2007 at 7:00 p.m. in the Island Hall.
Sir Norman Browse
President
Item l The 5 newly Elected Members will take their Oath of Office and then take their seats.
Item ll Opening of the States.
Item lll Presentation of Warrants
The Reverend A. Mignot will present his warrant of appointment as representative of His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor of the Bailiwick of Guernsey.
Item lV Election Procedure
The States is asked to decide whether the following elections should be by open vote, otherwise Rule 20 of the Rules of Procedure of the States Alderney, shall come into operation.
Item V Vice President
To elect a Vice President for 2007.
Item Vl To approve the mandate of the Policy and Finance Committee as follows:-
To formulate and make recommendations to the States on all policy matters. To be accountable for the financial management of the States.
To operate within the policies, guidelines and resolutions of the States.
To liaise and negotiate with the States of Guernsey on all matters relating to the provision of transferred services and finance.
To be responsible for all external affairs.
To liaise with the General Services and Building and Development Control Committees in relation to their budget and legislative requirements.
To perform the following functions -
Finance:
To present to the States the annual budget and audited accounts and, where necessary, report to the States thereon.
To monitor the income and expenditure of the States, its committees and Trust Funds and, where appropriate, to add comment and recommendation to all applications to the States for money votes, and/or submissions to the States where public income and expenditure is involved.
To deal with all borrowings as authorised by the States, loans and the administration of all monies accruing to the States for specific purposes under the terms of various Trusts and Funds.
To be responsible for recommending to the States, whether by Ordinance or otherwise, the fees, dues and charges levied by the States for the provision of any service required to be provided under legislation and to approve the rents payable for States" land and properties.
To be responsible for recommending to the States the level of Occupier"s Rates.
To advise on the rents, premiums (if any) and duration of leases to be granted by the General Services Committee for all other States properties.
To submit leases to the States for approval in accordance with the Budget Rules and Procedures.
To be responsible for all States" insurances.
The Economy:
To initiate, pursue and report to the States upon matters relating to the economy of the Island, including immigration, population, social services (financial aspects only), the development of an economic plan, employment, industry and e-commerce.
To deal with external authorities in fiscal and commercial matters.
To be responsible for public relations and the promotion of the Tourist Industry.
To monitor the economic policy of the States and to report and make recommendations for such amendments as deemed necessary.
To liaise with the Commerce and Employment Department on matters relating to economic planning.
Constitution and Legal Matters:
To be responsible for all matters affecting the Constitution and all legislation (other than legislation falling specifically within the responsibility of the General Services and the Building and Development Control Committee).
To be responsible for all matters relating to International Conventions, Treaties, Agreements, EU Directives and extended legislation from the United Kingdom.
To liaise as necessary with the Court of Alderney.
To be responsible for and the leasing and use of all States-owned Forts.
To be responsible for matters affecting -
Elections;
Census;
Import and Export Control;
Telecommunications;
Postal Services, Philately and Currency;
Gambling;
Emergency Fuel Control (The Energy (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 1978);
Dangerous Weapons;
Civil Aviation; and
Youth Training and Adult Education.
To be responsible for all matters not specifically falling within the mandate of the General Services Committee and the Building and Development Control Committee.
Staff and Offices:
To be the States Employment Board with responsibility for all matters relating to the employment of Civil Servants and Manual Staff; and the management of office accommodation; to be the Civil Service Board referred to in the Terms and Conditions of Service for Civil Servants and the Terms and Conditions of Employment for Manual Staff as agreed between the Board and the Transport and General Workers Union.
In particular to be responsible for the appointment of staff and the preparation and review of the Terms and Conditions of Service of all salaried staff (subject to the relevant provisions of the Government of Alderney Law) and to liaise with the Guernsey Civil Service Staff Association.
To control establishment numbers.
To be responsible for staff pensions.
To liaise with Trades Unions on matters relating to the Terms and Conditions of Employment for Manual Staff.
Item Vll To approve the mandate of the General Services Committee as follows:-
To be accountable to the States for the provision and implementation of all Government services provided and/or required by legislation, resolution or policy of the States within agreed budgets. To liaise with the Policy and Finance Committee in relation to budgetary and legislative requirements.
To operate within the policies, guidelines and resolutions of the States.
In particular, to perform the following functions:-
To be accountable for the administration of the harbour and its functions and to make recommendations to the Policy and Finance Committee on all fees, dues and charges required to be levied by legislation.
To deal with shipping and all matters relating to the sea.
To be responsible for the continuing investigations into a marina in Alderney.
To deal with all matters relating to the railway.
To administer and maintain all States" buildings including offices; to be accountable for all public works; to place contracts for public works; to be responsible for refuse collection and its disposal.
To be responsible for the Fire Brigade; for emergency services; for sewage disposal; and for traffic control.
To be accountable for all States" properties which are not the responsibility of the Policy and Finance Committee.
To be responsible for all matters relating to public assistance and welfare; and the allocation of States housing.
To be responsible for all official entertainments, liquor licensing and the Saye Camp site.
To be responsible for recreation, youth and sports activities.
To be accountable as the Water Board for the provision of water supplies on the Island in accordance with the legislation applicable thereto.
To be responsible for the leasing of all States Properties, other than Forts, in the ownership of the States; to deal with all matters relating to agriculture, livestock, other animals, birds and vermin; to administer the Island of Burhou; to be responsible for afforestation and fencing and management of all States land including the consolidation of parcels and not to reduce the area of such land without the authority of the States; and administer the States Slaughterhouse.
To be responsible for all matters relating to sea fisheries.
To be responsible for environmental monitoring and for the co-ordination of public services in the event of a civil emergency. To be responsible for the establishment of a working party to be known as the Civil Emergency Working Party which shall include amongst its members the following people:-
The President of the States, the Officer Commanding the Junior Militia, the States Analyst, the Chief Fire Officer, the Manager of the Water Board, the States Engineer, the General Manager of Alderney Electricity Limited, the resident Sergeant of the Police in Alderney, the Harbour Officer, a Medical Practitioner; a representative of St. John Ambulance (unless otherwise represented); a Communications adviser(s); and the person appointed as Co-ordinator of the emergency services.
The Working Party shall appoint a Chairman from amongst its members.
Item Vlll To approve the mandate of the Building and Development Control Committee, as follows:-
To be the Authority for approving plans in both the public and private sector; to be responsible for the Le Banquage Housing Scheme; to administer The Building and Development Control (Alderney) Law, 2002, as amended; to be the Committee to make recommendations to the States on the maximum number of dwellings to be permitted in any given period in accordance with Section 15 of The Building & Development Control (Alderney) Law, 2002; to administer Building Regulations made under the provisions of The Building & Development Control (Alderney) Law, 2002, and any other law or laws by which they may be replaced. To be responsible for the preparation of a policy and strategy for environmental conservation and ecology on the Island.
Item lX Duration of Committee Service
The States is asked to re-affirm States Resolution Vlll of 13th January 1988 that all Committee and Chairman appointments shall be for two years (unless decreed otherwise by Law) i.e. on this occasion, from 10th January 2007 until 31st December 2008.
Item X The States is asked to elect the Chairmen of the following Committees:
1. Policy and Finance Committee 2. General Services Committee
3. Building and Development Control Committee
Item Xl The States is asked to elect the following Committees: -
1. 9 Members to the Policy and Finance Committee 2. 5 Members to the General Services Committee,
3. 4 Members to the Building and Development Control Committee.
Item Xll Other Appointments:
1. The States is asked: EITHER to elect a person to serve as a Director of the Board of Alderney Electricity Limited; OR to direct the Policy and Finance Committee to do so from their Members.
2. To elect a member to serve on the Guernsey Cadastre Appeals Committee.
3. To elect three members to sit on the Management Committee in the affairs of the Alderney Branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (the President being Ex-officio Chairman).
Item Xlll The States is asked to make the following arrangements: -
1. To appoint KPMG Channel Islands Limited to be the States Auditors for 2007. 2. To empower any one member of the Policy and Finance Committee with the States Treasurer or her deputy; or the Chief Executive Officer and the States Treasurer or her deputy to operate the States Bank Accounts.
3. To empower any one member of the Policy and Finance Committee with the States Treasurer or her deputy; or the States Treasurer or her deputy with the Chief Executive Officer to operate the Water Board Bank Account.
Item XlV Election of Alderney Representatives to sit in the Guernsey States of Deliberation
The States is asked:- a) To elect two members to sit in the Guernsey States of Deliberation for 2007, and
b) To elect two other members to sit in the Guernsey States of Deliberation as Alternative Representatives for 2007.
Item XV Incinerator
Under clause 45(4) of the Government of Alderney Law 2004, five members of the States of Alderney have signed the following Requête: - "THE HUMBLE PETITION of the undersigned Members of the States of Alderney SHEWETH:-
On 22nd November 2006 the States resolved to enter into a contract with Envikraft AS for the purchase of an incinerator. The contract would have a long stop date enabling the States to withdraw within three months from signing the contract on forfeiture of 5% of the contract value - some £70k. The States also resolved to request Guernsey"s Treasury and Resources Department to lay the matter before the Guernsey States with a request to vote a sum not exceeding £1.8m for the purchase, installation and ancillary works for an incinerator.
Since the decision of the States on 22 November 2006 information has come to the attention of some Members which casts doubt upon whether this is the right course, both economically and environmentally.
THESE PREMISES CONSIDERED, your Petitioners humbly pray that the States of Alderney may be please to resolve:-
1. To annul the resolution of the States of 22 November 2006 to enter into a contract with Envikraft AS for the purchase of an incinerator.
2. To refer the matter of waste disposal to the General Services Committee for further consideration.
3. To direct the General Services Committee to seek a costed evaluation of all available options including those involving other suppliers of equipment and other waste reduction, recycling or disposal options not yet considered.
4. To direct the General Services Committee to report to the Sates with proposals for a waste strategy, which may or may not include those approved on 22 November 2006 no later than the June 2007 meeting of the States.
AND YOUR PETITIONERS WILL EVERY PRAY
ALDERNEY, this 28TH day of November 2006."
Signed by the following members: Messrs Cox, Walden and Willmott. Miss Benfield and Mrs Philips.
The States is asked to resolve:-
1. To annul the resolution of the States of 22 November 2006 to enter into a contract with Envikraft AS for the purchase of an incinerator.
2. To refer the matter of waste disposal to the General Services Committee for further consideration.
3. To direct the General Services Committee to seek a costed evaluation of all available options including those involving other suppliers of equipment and other waste reduction, recycling or disposal options not yet considered.
4. To direct the General Services Committee to report to the Sates with proposals for a waste strategy, which may or may not include those approved on 22 November 2006 no later than the June 2007 meeting of the States.
Item XVl Registration of Buildings and Conservation Areas under the Building and Development Control (Alderney) Law, 2002.
The following letter has been received from Mr C Main Chairman of the Building and Development Control Committee:- "Under the provisions contained in Section 50(2) of the above mentioned law the Building and Development Control Committee are required to publish in a Billet d"État, at least once every three years, a list of all buildings and conservation areas appearing in the Register of Historic Buildings and Ancient Monuments. This list is given below as updated in March 2006: -
Reg. No. Reg. Date Plot No. Location
CONSERVATION AREAS
C/001 18.06.91 Town of St Anne inc.
Braye Road
C/002 18.06.91 The Braye & Grosnez
Peninsula
C/003 18.06.91 Part of the valley known
as "Ladysmith"
C/004 18.06.91 Longis Common &
surrounding area
C/005 21.03.06 Strangers Cemetery
C/006 21.03.06 Fort Quesnard Battery
C/007 21.03.06 Gauvain"s Row
HISTORIC BUILDINGS
B/001 24.10.91 F227/S.3 Abrevoir Publique,
Ladysmith
B/002 24.10.91 F227/S.3 Lavoirette, Ladysmith
B/003 14.02.92 F90/S.4 War Memorial Victoria
Street
B/004 14.02.92 F85/S.4 St Annes Parish Church
Gateway leading from Victoria Street
B/004a 21.03.06 St Annes Church
B/005 14.02.92 Victoria Street
Commemorative Wall plaque
Reg. No. Reg. Date Plot No . Location
HISTORIC BUILDINGS CONTINUED
B/006 14.02.92 F120/S.4 Island Hall, Royal
Connaught Sq.
B/007 14.02.92 F79/S.4 St Annes Vicarage, Royal
Connaught Square
B/008 14.02.92 F81/S.4 Alderney Museum, High
Street
B/009 14.02.92 F6/S.4 Old Corner House, 6 Le
Huret
B/010 14.02.92 F2/S.4 2 Le Huret
B/011 14.02.92 F3/S.4 3 Le Huret
B/012 14.02.92 F4/S.4 4 Le Huret
B/013 14.02.92 F8&9/S.4 8 Le Huret
B/014 14.02.92 F1/S.4 1 Le Huret
B/015 14.02.92 F5a/S.4 The Old Forge, Le Huret
B/016 14.02.92 F3a/S.4 The White Cottage, Royal
Connaught Square
B/017 14.02.92 F2/S.4 2 Royal Connaught
Square
B/018 14.02.92 F3/S.4 3 Royal Connaught
Square
B/019 14.02.92 F4/S.4 4 Royal Connaught
Square
B/020 14.02.92 F5/S.4 5 Royal Connaught
Square
B/021 14.02.92 F6/S.4 Royal Connaught
Residential Care Home, 6 Royal Connaught Sq.
B/022 14.02.92 F49/S.4 49 Victoria Street
B/023 14.02.92 F90/S.4 18th Century Church
Tower High Street
B/024 14.02.92 F1/S.4 1 Royal Connaught
Square
B/025 04.03.92 F1/S.4 1 Victoria Street/ Victoria
Hotel
B/026 06.03.92 F2/S.4 2 Victoria Street
B/027 06.03.92 F3/S.4 3 Victoria Street
B/028 06.03.92 F4/S.4 4 Victoria Street
B/029 06.03.92 F5/S.4 5 Victoria Street
B/030 06.03.92 F6/S.4 6 Victoria Street
B/031 06.03.92 F7/S.4 7 Victoria Street
B/032 06.03.92 F9/S.4 9 Victoria Street
B/033 06.03.92 F54/S.4 54 Victoria Street/
Georgian Hotel
B/034 03.04.92 F10/S.4 10 Victoria Street
B/035 03.04.92 F11/S.4 11 Victoria Street
B/036 03.04.92 F12/S.4 12 Victoria Street
B/037 03.04.92 F13/S.4 13 Victoria Street
B/038 03.04.92 F14/S.4 14 Victoria Street
B/039 03.04.92 F15/S.4 15 Victoria Street
B/040 03.04.92 F16/S.4 16 Victoria Street
B/041 03.04.92 F17/S.4 17 Victoria Street/TSB
B/042 03.04.92 F97/S.4 North Star, Victoria Street
B/043 03.04.92 F21/S.4 21 Victoria Street
B/044 03.04.92 F22/S.4 22 Victoria Street
B/045 03.04.92 F23/S.4 23 Victoria Street
B/046 03.04.92 F24/S.4 24 Victoria Street
Reg. No. Reg. Date Plot No. Location
HISTORIC BUILDINGS CONTINUED
B/047 03.04.92 F25/S.4 25 Victoria Street
B/048 03.04.92 F26/S.4 26 Victoria Street
B/049 03.04.92 F35/S.4 35 Victoria Street/Lloyds
Bank
B/050 03.04.92 F36/S.4 36 Victoria Street
B/051 03.04.92 F37/S.4 37 Victoria Street
B/052 03.04.92 F38/S.4 38 Victoria Street
B/053 03.04.92 F39/S.4 39 Victoria Street
B/054 10.04.92 F40/S.4 40 Victoria Street
B/055 10.04.92 F42/S.4 42 Victoria Street/Le
Riches
B/056 10.04.92 F47/S.4 47 Victoria Street
B/057 10.04.92 F46/S.4 46 Victoria Street/ Chez
Andre
B/058 10.04.92 F50/S.4 50 Victoria Street
B/059 10.04.92 F53/S.4 53 Victoria Street
B/060 10.04.92 F53a/S.4 53a Victoria Street/
Midland Bank
B/061 10.04.92 F54a/S.4 54a Victoria Street/The
Gift Box
B/062 10.04.92 F55/S.4 55a Victoria Street/Post
Office
B/063 10.04.92 F55b/S.4 55b Victoria Street
B/064 10.04.92 F56/S.4 56 Victoria Street/La
Boutique
B/065 10.04.92 F31/S.4 31 Victoria Street
B/066 10.04.92 F20/S.4 20 Victoria Street/Albert
House
B/067 10.04.92 F41/S.4 41 Victoria Street
B/068 16.04.92 F147/8/9 Les Mouriaux House
B/070 16.04.92 F6B/7/S.4 7 Queen Elizabeth II St
B/071 16.04.92 F2,2a,2b,55 Sauchet House,2 Venelle
de Sauchet
B/073 16.04.92 F9/S.4 9 Queen Elizabeth II St
B/074 16.04.92 F11/S.4 11 Queen Elizabeth II St
B/075 16.04.92 F5/S.4 5 Queen Elizabeth II St
B/076 16.04.92 F4/S.4 4 Queen Elizabeth II St
B/077 16.04.92 F2/S.4 2 Queen Elizabeth II St
B/079 16.04.92 F164/S.4 1720 House, Church St
B/080 16.04.92 F4/S.4 4 Church Street
B/090 30.04.92 F10/S.4 10 High Street
B/091 30.04.92 F38/S.4 38 High Street
B/092 30.04.92 F39/S.4 39 High Street
B/093 30.04.92 F28/S.4 28 High Street
B/094 30.04.92 F29/S.4 29 High Street
B/095 30.04.92 F30/S.4 30 High Street
B/096 30.04.92 F1/S.4 1 St Martins Annex
B/097 30.04.92 F242/S.4 Val des Portes
B/098 30.04.92 F189a/S.4 Uncle Tom"s Cabin, Les
Rocquettes
B/099 30.04.92 F235/6/S.4 The Presbytery
B/100 10.04.92 F80/S.5 Mount Hale Battery and
Arsenal
B/101 10.04.92 F163/S.5 Essex Castle
B/101a The Pepper Pot
Reg. No. Reg. Date Plot No. Location
HISTORIC BUILDINGS CONTINUED
B/102 16.04.92 F161/S.5 Chateau de Longis/The
Nunnery
B/103 16.04.92 F1/S.6 Fort Ile de Raz
B/104 16.04.92 F43/S.6 Fort Houmet Herbe
B/105 16.04.92 F55/S.6 Fort Quesnard Barracks
B/106 16.04.92 F67/S.6 Fort Les Homeaux
Florains
B/107 16.04.92 F76/S.6 Fort Corblets
B/108 16.04.92 F245/S.3 Fort Clonque
B/109 16.04.92 F160/S.6 Fort Chateau a L"Etoc
B/114 16.04.92 F56/S.6 Fort Quesnard Battery
B/120 30.04.92 F238/S.4 Sundial House, Les
Rocquettes
B/124 20.07.93 F395/S.3 Telegraph Tower
B/125 21.03.06 Masonic Hall
B/126 21.03.06 The Odean
B/127 21.03.06 The Water Tower (Mouriaux)
B/128 21.03.06 Alderney Farmers Memorial
B/129 21.03.06 Ironage Burial Site
B/130 21.03.06 Marias Pond
B/131 21.03.06 Marias Hall
B/132 21.03.06 St Michaels Cottage
B/133 21.03.06 Hillside Rue des Butes
B/134 21.03.06 Le Vallon, Fontaine David
B/135 21.03.06 The Vines
B/136 21.03.06 Corblets Barracks
SWD Shed
B/137 21.03.06 Corblets Barracks
Sharpes Farm
B138 21.03.06 Mannez Lighthouse and outlying buildings
B/139 21.03.06 Fort Doyle
B/140 21.03.06 Fort Albert and outlying buildings
B/141 21.03.06 Fort Grosnez
B/142 21.03.06 Fort Tougis, Barracks and Batteries
B/143 21.03.06 Archway at Arch Bay
B/144 21.03.06 Archway at Crabby
C J Main
Chairman"
The States is asked to take note of the list of properties appearing in the States Register of Historic Buildings and Ancient Monuments as required by The Building and Development Control (Alderney) Law, 2002.
Item XVll Questions and Reports
Issued Friday 29th December 2006
